On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 11:14:07AM +0530, ambarish pathak typed:
> Raju Mathur wrote:
> > FAT /does/ allow sort of hard links (duplicate entries in the file
> > table pointing to the same FAT entry), but (a) I'm not aware of any
> > FAT implementation which permits you make hard links and (b) such
> > entries are considered filesystem errors by MS' file check utilities
> > (chkdsk, etc).
>
> can u elaborate please. i thought there was a contracdiction in terms
> between 1st and 2nd sentence(a) above.
> how do u make the hardlinks in the File Allocation Table (forget the
> chkdsk thing).
The remark "FAT /does/ allow" from Raju was a wee bit tongue-in-cheek in
my opinion :)
The fact is that though the statement is correct, it can really screw up
your files because the operating systems that use FAT - namely DOS and
WINxx don't support it. But theoretically it is possible because the
directory entry in a FAT file system just stores a pointer to the start
of the file and if you could create multiple directory entries pointing
to the start of the same file, (through say Norton Disk Editor) you
could access the file through any of these directory entries.
Kala
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